Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Chapman had gone there was no one with his dynamism and far-sightedness to carry on where he left off . |
| 2 | In the shire districts , the spectacular advances which enabled Labour to claim more than 50% of the vote in many authorities lend a further twist to the puzzle of why the party has not been able to match consistently good local results in these areas with comparable general election support . |
| 3 | In the long run it may be possible to go further than this , to appropriate in the form of tax revenue a large part of the income which workers would otherwise have put into long-term savings schemes , and to expand commensurately the socialised provision for retired workers ( state pensions plus appropriate social amenities ) . |
| 4 | In the library context it should be possible to go further than the catalogue to establish relevance , i.e. , to go beyond the question put to the catalogue and include the user 's relevance judgements after examining the actual documents on the shelves . |
| 5 | Most of the grass had already been worn away by cheering trampling spectators but it was still pleasant to sit there when it caught the sun . |
| 6 | ‘ Depardieu junior made more than 15 trips to Holland recently , ’ said a police spokesman . |
| 7 | On agriculturally unimproved moorlands it is not easy to exceed the maximum stocking density ( 6 sheep/hectare ) for HLCAs because it is often not possible to support more than 2 per hectare . |
| 8 | Maybe because tonight the warning had been a long time sounding , had started its tormented wailing just when everyone began to think the bombers were n't coming . |
| 9 | The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones . |
| 10 | Neither side should be afraid to instruct more than one doctor when the plaintiff suffers multiple injuries giving rise to a variety of symptoms . |
| 11 | To herself she had to admit that she would have been willing to go further than talk . |
| 12 | A complex negotiation was made between the Davids Price and Tallichet for aircraft and services , the result in Spitfire terms would be that Tallichet would receive TP298 in flying trim and SM845 was free to float away if appropriate . |
| 13 | As has consistently been the case , Paisley and other DUP politicians were prepared to go further than the Official Unionists and the provincial leadership of the Orange Order . |
| 14 | Pollitt , at the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern , was prepared to go further than the ILP . |
| 15 | British Rail was prepared to invest only where returns were high and quick , which was unlikely in Mr Kerfoot 's case . |
| 16 | Hunched in a remote and subordinate cranny of government — devising a rent bill at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government , as a matter of fact — I was not disposed to go overboard when our armed forces were launched into the attack in November ; but what on earth was intended to come out of it and how an occupation found untenable could be tenably restored and sustained by force was beyond the comprehension of this unmoved spectator . |
| 17 | They were overwhelmed with replies , however , when they asked if people were prepared to come forward as character-witnesses for the parents of the nine South Ronaldsay children whose plight had moved the nation . |
| 18 | ‘ In any case it would be interesting to find out where the money 's coming from , ’ said Owen . |
| 19 | So what we 're going to do is to trail our coats in a variety of sessions , to suggest a variety of things to you , and see whether you agree with them or not so please feel free to come in as and when appropriate and see what you think . |
| 20 | The French charged sooner than we thought . |
| 21 | But security lighting is a different matter , as you 'll probably want a lot of light to come on when an intruder approaches . |
| 22 | He moved at once , for he would not lie here on the floor before this ancient evil creature and , although it was awkward and painful to stand up because of the ropes that bound his arms , he did so in a swift fluid movement and stood eyeing the Robemaker . |
| 23 | I 'm always willing to stand down if somebody can claim to be a little older . |
| 24 | Then we think about who 's going to be using it ; in an inner-city area , for instance , we might consider what other play opportunities there are nearby to find out whether we should cater mostly for toddlers or older children . |
| 25 | Yet we so often feel guilty and uncomfortable ; we feel like children , afraid to own up because of what might happen . |
| 26 | The bass section is fully enclosed as expected , but the rest of the enclosure is open a the back , and only partly enclosed at the sides , making the system free to radiate backwards as well as forwards ( this property is known as ‘ dipole ’ , or figure of eight radiation ) . |
| 27 | The Smiths could n't be outmoded or old fashioned simply because they would be so different . |
| 28 | I mean the management are quite prepared to stick together when it comes to getting grants as the Ffestiniog Slate Company . |
| 29 | For example , an employer who envisages having to slim down his work-force in the future , perhaps after introducing new technology , may offer those who are prepared to resign rather than to wait to volunteer for redundancy a financial inducement , perhaps exceeding state redundancy pay . |
| 30 | Most burglars will flee empty handed rather than risk a confrontation . |